Monday, July 20, 2009
Hello again! Yet another week and another transfer gone by in the mission! Ive been out for 6 months now! holy cow! It doesnt seem nearly that long! Sounds like a crazy but fun week there. Girls camp sounded pretty fun. Hope you all had a great time! It has been a pretty good week here. Transfers are on thursday. Our district leader goes home tomorrow and my companion, Elder Trott, was just called as district leader. Spanish is going pretty well but i feel like im not improving as fast as i should be. Its really hard to learn the language here when everyone else speaks english and half of our investigators do too. I guess i just need to study more and pray harder. Thats awesome that Alayna got her mission call to South Korea! Crazy! A girl in Gainesville that i knew really well just got her mission call to Las Vegas, NV. Is Alayna at home for the summer? Whats the Hawkins and her address? Maybe ill send her a letter. Oh ya ill be staying here for another 6 weeks with the same companion just so you know. Same address for a while. They dont transfer the spanish missionaries as often. It really is hard to get people to church. This week was really good though. Last week we had no investigators at church and this week we had 7. Definitely a lot better! We have a couple really cool families we're teaching right now. Im pretty sure they will all eventually get baptized. We may end up baptizing everyone in one family except the dad unless he stops drinking. I knocked on a door this week and this 15 year old kid named Sandro answered. He is awesome! Baptism date for August 2! He is from Lima, Peru. What part of Peru is Uncle Jorge from? We havent met with the family yet though but hopefully they will follow him. He wrestles and we are going to go to their practice on tues night to help coach. Elder Trott is a really good wrestler. I wont be able to do anything cause of my hip so he'll probably coach more. Hey did i tell you about Shuntez? We were tracting about 3 weeks ago and this 15 year old black kid just walked up and started talking to me, wondering who i was. I briefly taught him the restoration and set a baptism date with him. He didnt speak Spanish so i referred him to the english missionaries and they taught him and his 9 year old brother and they were both baptized and confirmed this week! They are still teaching his mom but shes getting close. The best part is that he is on the same wrestling team and same grade as Sandro. The Lord works so perfectly! Now they will both have a friend and support with the same standards throughout high school. We also started playing 'futbol' every saturday morning with our recent converts and investigators. We play in the gym at the church and someone brings goals to use. We started it 2 weeks ago. Its working pretty well for fellowship cause they all love soccer! And so do i! Its been too long since ive played. My hip is usually pretty sore after but its doing really well. Its gotten a lot stronger from working it out at the gym. Hey mom did you figure out the hair cutting thing? Hope everyones week goes well! Love,Elder Carty
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